Assistant Controller

🕒 July 6

🐻 Alaska, Hawaii, +2 more states – Remote

🐻 Alaska – Remote 🌺 Hawaii – Remote ⚜️ Louisiana – Remote 🦬 Montana – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⛔️ Financial Controller

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored H1B visas in the past.

👻 Ghost score 24%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

Houzz

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

🏗️ Construction

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Construction • Marketing • Logistics

Houzz is a comprehensive platform that caters to homeowners and industry professionals involved in home renovation and design. The platform features a wide range of design ideas, photos, and articles on various rooms and home elements, from kitchens and bathrooms to outdoor spaces. It also offers a marketplace for home improvement products, furniture, and decor. Additionally, Houzz provides professional software solutions for design and construction projects, including tools for project management, 3D renderings, and estimate creation. The platform connects users with a variety of professionals such as architects, interior designers, and contractors.

📋 Description

• Own the company's technical accounting function—leading U.S. GAAP research, policy development, and audit-ready documentation—while setting the financial reporting roadmap and ensuring technical conclusions are sound, scalable, and aligned with business strategy. • Lead core accounting operations end-to-end, including payroll accounting, order-to-cash, close governance, and reconciliations—ensuring accuracy, strong controls, and continuous acceleration of cycle time. • Own international accounting and tax compliance operations—spanning multi-currency consolidation, intercompany eliminations, statutory reporting, and domestic and cross-border tax filings—while serving as a key liaison to external auditors and tax advisors. • Build, coach, and develop a high-performing accounting team—establishing clear standards, scalable playbooks, and a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Drive accounting transformation through process standardization, automation, and responsible AI adoption—building a faster, more scalable finance function without sacrificing controls or auditability. • Establish and continuously strengthen the internal controls environment—designing, documenting, and maintaining SOPs, control frameworks, and process standards across accounting operations—ensuring controls are audit-ready, scalable, and evolve alongside business growth and emerging risk areas. • Drive SOX readiness through control design, scoping, and deficiency remediation, while championing SOP adoption across the team through structured training, clear ownership, and a culture of continuous improvement.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant leadership experience across technical accounting, financial reporting, controls, and operational accounting • CPA license (required) with public accounting experience, preferably Big 4 or national firm, with additional experience in a technology, SaaS, or similarly complex business environment • Deep technical accounting expertise and a demonstrated track record of translating complex U.S. GAAP guidance into practical, scalable business applications • Proven experience preparing, reviewing, and approving technical accounting memos, accounting policies, audit support, reporting deliverables, and executive-level accounting conclusions • Excellence in leading and developing team members, setting review standards, coaching technical judgment, and building repeatable operating practices across accounting or reporting functions • Hands-on working knowledge of month-end close, reconciliations, flux analysis, journal entry review, accruals, and intercompany activity—as well as direct experience implementing new tools and accounting, and tax compliance operations • Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills, with the ability to explain technical accounting risks and recommendations clearly to finance and non-finance leaders alike • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-paced environments where priorities shift and success requires strategic judgment, practical decision-making, hands-on execution, and disciplined follow-through • A bias toward action and continuous improvement, with practical interest and judgment in using AI, automation, and systems-enabled workflows to improve accounting quality, controls, and scalability

🏖️ Benefits

• health insurance • retirement plans • paid time off • flexible work arrangements • professional development